POLITICAL NOTES: Blood on Whose Hands?

"I've always said that when the
break came, it would come on foreign policy, and this is it," said a
top-ranking Republican last week. "I don't care how many figures the
Administration produces, the people won't get over it. Something went
haywire somewhere. They had the money. Where are the guns and tanks and
planes? That's what they're asking and they don't want any
mealy-mouthed answers."

In the Senate last week, Democrats reacted with the fury of men who knew
they had been hurt. They hurled orator after orator into the attack....